Anabel Ford, Ronald Nigh

Broschiertes Buch

The Maya Forest Garden

Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands

Beschreibung

Using studies on contemporary Maya farming techniques and important new archaeological research, the authors show that the ancient Maya were able to support, sustainably, a vast population by farming the forestâ thus refuting the common notion that Maya civilization devolved due to overpopulation and famine.

Autor

Anabel Ford is director of the MesoAmerican Research Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and President of the nonprofit organization Exploring Solutions Past: The Maya Forest Alliance. She has done extensive research on patterns of Maya settlement and landscape ecology, and is recognized for the archaeological discovery of the ancient Maya city center of El Pilar, on the border of Belize and Guatemala., Ronald Nigh is a professor at Centro Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) in Chiapas, Mexico. He is the author of numerous studies and articles on agricultural, ecological, and environmental issues of concern to indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica. He is also director of Dana, a non-government organization that coordinates an experimental garden in San Cristobal de Las Casas for training and support of young Maya farmers involved in agroecological transition.

Produktdetails

• New Frontiers in Historical Ecology
• Verlag: Left Coast Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781611329988
• ISBN-10: 1611329981
• Artikelnr.: 41802234